Candidate to face Darryl Hollingsworth

9:42 PM,
May 8, 2013

Written by

Emily Lane
elane@jackson.gannett.com

After about 20 hours of suspense, George Flaggs was finally able to celebrate his nail-biting Democratic primary win and exhale with some relief.

After the polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, election commissioners and volunteers counted absentee, affidavit and curbside votes for more than nine hours. Flaggs received the majority - 50 percent plus one vote - by receiving 2,687 votes, or 50.11 percent. It was just five more votes than he needed to avoid going into a runoff.

First-time political candidate Linda Fondren came in second, with 1,560 votes, or 29.09 percent. ...